Arizona Deer — Unit 4B
Arizona Unit 4B covers 854,983 acres and lies 19 miles west of Holbrook and 29 miles north-west of Snowflake. 46% of it is public land, mostly national forest (23%) and state trust land (18%). In 2025, 590 people hunted deer here and took 51 — 9% of them killed something. The 2026 draw put up 31 tags here for 21 first-choice applicants.
Your chance of drawing here
Every deer license type on offer in Unit 4B, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.
Chances are from the 2026 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.
Simple view Odds at every point level-
10% Point builder 2% as 2nd choice
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69% Real chance 0% as 2nd choice
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54% No first-choice applicants 0% as 2nd choice
| Hunt | Your odds (0 pts) | As 2nd choice | Points needed | Tags / applicants | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1005 ↗ GENERAL DEER | Any antlered deer | 4A and 4B | 10% Point builder | 2% | — +1 since 2023 | 31 / 21 | Oct 23 – Nov 1, 2026 |
| 1801 ↗ General | Any antlered deer | 04A/04B | 69% Real chance | 0% | — | 1 / 1 | Oct 24 – Nov 2, 2025 |
| 1802 ↗ General | Any antlered deer | 04B/04A | 54% No first-choice applicants | 0% | — | 2 / 0 | Dec 12–31, 2025 |
What these columns mean
- Your odds —
- the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2026 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
- The badge —
- plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
- As 2nd choice —
- Arizona lets you name more than one hunt on the application. Miss on your first choice and you go into the pot for whatever tags are left, alongside everyone else's second choices. Points never help a lower choice, so this number is the same whatever you have banked — it is usually worth naming a hunt that goes undersubscribed.
- Points needed —
- the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2026 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
- Tags / applicants —
- tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.
What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)
| License | Up front | Gone if you miss | If you draw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per application | $175 | $175 | $475 |
Application window: closes Jun 2, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
Who owns the ground
- Private 460,619 ac · 54%
- National Forest 196,298 ac · 23%
- State trust land 153,131 ac · 18%
- BLM 42,726 ac · 5%
- State land 1,950 ac · 0%
- Tribal 179 ac · 0%
- County or city land 77 ac · 0%
How the hunting has gone
What Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Arizona Game & Fish Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season. Arizona's figures come from AZGFD's post-season hunter questionnaire - survey estimates carrying a 90% confidence interval and a return count, not a census of animals checked in.
All deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 590 | 51 | 9% |
| 2024 | 477 | 49 | 10% |
| 2023 | 417 | 49 | 12% |
| 2022 | 256 | 0 | 0% |
| 2021 | 546 | 45 | 8% |
| 2020 | 522 | 67 | 13% |
| 2019 | 397 | 53 | 13% |
| 2018 | 269 | 5 | 2% |
Mule Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 46 | — |
| 2024 | — | 44 | — |
| 2023 | — | 47 | — |
| 2021 | — | 43 | — |
| 2020 | — | 65 | — |
| 2019 | — | 53 | — |
| 2018 | — | 5 | — |
White-tailed Deer
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | 5 | — |
| 2024 | — | 5 | — |
| 2023 | — | 2 | — |
| 2021 | — | 2 | — |
| 2020 | — | 2 | — |
What people carried (2025 harvest)
- Archery 102 · 100% · 590 hunters, 17% success
What the agency says about the area
Unit 4B – Beginning at AZ Hwy 260 and the Sitgreaves National Forest boundary with the Tonto National Forest; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 260 to AZ Hwy 277; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 277 to Hwy 377; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 377 to AZ Hwy 77; northeasterly on AZ Hwy 77 to I-40 Exit 286; northeasterly along the westbound lane of I-40 to Exit 292; north on AZ Hwy 77 to the Navajo Indian Reservation boundary; west along the…
Boundary: AZ Game and Fish Hunt Units (AZGFD ArcGIS feature service, layer 0)
Harvest: 2025 AZ Over-the-Counter Archery Deer Harvest Summary
Harvest: 2025 AZ Deer Harvest Summary (draw hunts only)